I received this book from the publishers via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Everyone knows the Rivas - they were broke and gorgeous, and now they're rich, famous and gorgeous. And on the night of the famous Riva summer party in 1983, things are going to get wild - people will get high, drunk and completely messed up, long lost fathers will walk back into their children's lives, and hearts will be broken and repaired. It will be a night of reckoning, especially for the Rivas.

I loved this - and it was no surprise as I feel like Taylor Jenkins Reid has really honed her writing craft over the past few books, and she has found the type of story and characters she loves to present to the world, and she does it so damn well.

This book is not about the children of a famous musician. Well, it is and it isn't - it's about a family who happen to be biologically connected to someone too selfish to parent and instead, turn to one another to love and support. This book is so full of emotion from love and lust, to longing and heartbreak as well as the suffering you put yourself because of your love for others. All of the Riva children were special in their own way, and while the main focus seemed to be on Nina, I loved getting time with all of them - and would actually love more time with them as well if there were ever any spin-off books about Kit or even Casey.

You don't have to read other Taylor Jenkins Reid's books to read this one but there were some fantastic easter eggs that let you know the Rivas existed in the same world as Evelyn Hugo which is just something I LOVE when authors too. It feels exciting, and like you're a part of something cool and secret.

Taylor Jenkins Reid also has an ability like no other to create characters who are beautiful and flawed but so big and bright, they feel very real and when you stop reading the book, you almost go through a grieving process when you realise you can't go to the store and buy a Mick Riva album or google Nina Riva's modelling shoots to see if she was that beautiful. It's just a talent to not only create amazing characters on paper but to do it in a way that they become living, breathing entities in a reader's head - that they sit in front of them on the couch, or on the edge of the bed and narrate their own story.

I felt like I was floating in the surf on a Malibu beach, the sun beaming down on me and the salty taste of the sea on my lips when I was reading this, and I absolutely fell into the pages and swam into the words the second I started reading it and I just could not put it down.